March 2017 Auction

Bunnahabhain 40 Year Old

One of only 750 ever produced. This is a very rare Bunnahabhain that is presented outstandingly.

Bottle No. 2

Port Ellen 1978 37 Year Old 16th Release

The sixteenth edition of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases. Distilled in 1978 and bottled 37 years later in 2016, bottled at cask strength and limited to 2940 bottles, this is bottle 1624.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in the Islay crown. Closure in 1983 has enabled this distillery to receive a near mythical amount of love and respect. As stocks get thinner on the ground, these bottles become rarer and rarer.

Port Ellen 1983 32 Year Old 15th Release

The fifthteenth edition of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases. Distilled in 1978 and bottled 32 years later in 2015, bottled at cask strength and limited to 2,964 bottles, this is bottle 242.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in the Islay crown. Closure in 1983 has enabled this distillery to receive a near mythical amount of love and respect. As stocks get thinner on the ground, these bottles become rarer and rarer.

Balvenie Rose 16 Year Old Second Edition

The Balvenie Rose was created to celebrate the long history of Balvenie Castle.  Margaret Douglas 'The Fair Maid of Galloway' married in turn, two of the infamous Black Douglases.  Following the murder of William Douglas at the hands of James II the Black Douglases rebelled against the Stewart King and were defeated loosing their titles and estates.  The king however was taken by Magaret's beauty and reinstated her in Balvenie Castle with an annual rent of a single red rose.

Two batches of the Balvenie Rose were released and sold exclusively at Balvenie distillery, each batch consisted of 4 refill American oak casks which were finished in a single first fill port pipe.

Port Ellen 1979 30 Year Old 9th Release

The ninth of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases.  Distilled in 1979 and bottled 30 years later in 2009, bottled at cask strength and limited to 5,916 bottles, this is bottle 4257.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in the Islay crown. Closure in 1983 has enabled this distillery to receive a near mythical amount of love and respect. As stocks get thinner on the ground, these bottles become rarer and rarer.

Port Ellen 1978 25 Year Old 4th Release

The forth release of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases.  Distilled in 1978 and bottled 25 years later in 2004, bottled at cask strength and limited to 5,100 bottles.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in the Islay crown. Closure in 1983 has enabled this distillery to receive a near mythical amount of love and respect. As stocks get thinner on the ground, these bottles become rarer and rarer.

This is bottle 0656.

Bowmore 30 Year Old Sea Dragon

Nicknamed 'the seadragon' due to the mythical beast adorning the rather pretty black ceramic bottle and box, this 30 year old Bowmore appeared in the mid 1990s and has achieved almost mythic status.

The contents of this decanter are almost entirely made up of long-aged casks from the legendary 1960s vintages.

Please note condition of lot as shown

Brora 30 Year Old 2002 / 1st Release

This is a bottle of the original 30 year old Brora released within Diageo's Super Premium malts, back in 2002.  

Bottle number 673 of 3,000.

Bowmore 30 Year Old Sea Dragon

Nicknamed 'the seadragon' due to the mythical beast adorning the rather pretty black ceramic bottle and box, this 30 year old Bowmore appeared in the mid 1990s and has achieved almost mythic status.

The contents of this decanter are almost entirely made up of long-aged casks from the legendary 1960s vintages.

Bruichladdich The 133 Revival 66 Year Vatting / 1 of only 8

A very, very rare vatting of Black Art spanning over 66 Years.

Only 8 were produced in 2015, celebrating members of the team who helped replace the distillery's Mash Tun.

The Mash tun was from 1881 and \"Revived\" 133 years later in 2014. 

Brora 37 Year Old 2015 Release

Another fantastic release from Diageo as part of their ongoing annual super premium releases.

Released in 2015 this was one of the oldest official bottled Broras at the time, only more recently beaten by the single cask 40 year old currently available at Travel Retail for no less than £6,995 which makes these bottlings seem a bargain!

Bottle number 297 of 2,078.

Port Ellen 1979 24 Year Old 3rd Release

The third release within Diageo's annual Port Ellen releases, distilled in 1979 and bottled 24 years later in 2003, bottled at cask strength and limited to 9,000 bottles, this is bottle 8,672.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel of the Islay crown. Closure in 1983 has enabled this distillery to receive a near mythical amount of love and respect. As stocks get thinner on the ground, these bottles become rarer and rarer.

Please note condition of the lot.

Port Ellen 1979 28 Year Old 7th Release

The seventh of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases.  Distilled in 1979 and bottled 28 years later in 2007, bottled at cask strength and limited to 5274 bottles, this is bottle 3485.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in the Islay crown. Closure in 1983 has enabled this distillery to receive a near mythical amount of love and respect. As stocks get thinner on the ground, these bottles become rarer and rarer.

Please note the condition of the box. 

Bowmore 1972 Signatory Vintage 36 Year Old

A rare old vintage Bowmore from 1972, bottled within the Cask Strength Collection by Signatory Vintage.

Distilled on 21st June 1972 and bottled on 29th July 2008.

Matured in single sherry butt #3890.

Bottle number 343 of 540.

Port Ellen 1978 27 Year Old 6th Release

The sixth edition of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases.  Distilled in 1978 and bottled 27 years later in 2006, bottled at cask strength and limited to 4,560 bottles, this is bottle 1409.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in the Islay crown. Closure in 1983 has enabled this distillery to receive a near mythical amount of love and respect. As stocks get thinner on the ground, these bottles become rarer and rarer.

Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve 15 Year Old

The teenager of this family of world reknowned American whiskies, now in incredibly high demand!

Port Ellen 1978 29 Year Old 8th Release

The eighth of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases. Distilled in 1978 and bottled 29 years later in 2008, bottled at cask strength and limited to 6,618 bottles, this is bottle 5557.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in the Islay crown. Closure in 1983 has enabled this distillery to receive a near mythical amount of love and respect. As stocks get thinner on the ground, these bottles become rarer and rarer.

Please note condition of lot as shown.

Port Ellen 1979 25 Year Old 5th Release

The fifth release of the incredibly popular Port Ellen annual releases.  Distilled in 1979 and bottled 25 years later in 2005, bottled at cask strength and limited to 5280 bottles, this is bottle 3500.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in the Islay crown. Closure in 1983 has enabled this distillery to receive a near mythical amount of love and respect. As stocks get thinner on the ground, these bottles become rarer and rarer.

Please note condition of this lot.

Brora 35 Year Old 2013 Release 

Last years release of Brora,within Diageo's Super Premium selection, was a 35 year old limited to 2,944 bottles.

This is bottle number 1443

Pappy Van Winkle 20 Year Old Family Reserve

This bourbon has become quite legendary, particularly after the theft of 65 X 3 bottle cases in 2013.

Now incredibly hard to find and even harder to buy from any retailer.

This bottle was distilled in the Frankfort distillery.

Pappy Van Winkle 20 Year Old Family Reserve

This bourbon has become quite legendary, particularly after the theft of 65 X 3 bottle cases in 2013.

Now incredibly hard to find and even harder to buy from any retailer.

This bottle was distilled in the Frankfort distillery.

Ben Wyvis 1972 27 Year Old / The Final Resurrection

This is one of the final bottlings Invergordon distillers released from this incredibly rare distillery. Released from the final three casks #744, 1058 and 1059 within Invergordon's stock.

Distilled in 1972 prior to the distillery ceasing production in 1976. 

Bottle number 205 of 471.

Bowmore 1991 Keizo Saji's Cask 21 Year Old

At the time the president of Suntory, Mr Keizo Seji visited Bowmore distillery in 1991 and oversaw the filling of a single sherry cask.  After the death of Mr Seji his son visited Bowmore distillery and donated his fathers cask to the employees of Morrison Bowmore.  

The single sherry cask was distilled in 1991 and bottled in 2012, this 21 year old Bowmore was only given to employees of Morrison Bowmore.

Bottle number 376.

Pappy Van Winkle 20 Year Old Family Reserve

This bourbon has become quite legendary, particularly after the theft of 65 X 3 bottle cases in 2013.

Now incredibly hard to find and even harder to buy from any retailer.

This bottle was distilled in the Frankfort distillery.

Note there is no velvet bag.

Bruichladdich 1992 A Final Act Of Creation 23 Year Old

Jim McEwan's final creation... at Bruichladdich.

Matured in a Château Latour red wine cask for 23 years, before bottling in 2015 at 52% - in honour of his 52 years of distilling.

This hand-signed bottle is one of only 220 released.

Bunnahabhain 1963 40 Year Old Feis Ile 2003

Bottled on the 20th May 2005 as Bunnabahhain's 2003 Feis Isle bottling.

This was a combination of the last seven hogsheads of 1963 Bunnahabhain that were in existence, distilled on 11th May 1963.

The cask yielded 743 bottles at a cask strength of 42.9%.

Balvenie 1997 DCS Compendium 19 Year Old Chapter #2

Consists of a 1997 vintage, cask strength, 19 year old Balvenie matured in a European oak Port Puncheon.

Filled on 6th August 1997.

Bottled on 28th September 2016 from cask #7951.

One of 265 bottles.

Brora 1977 Rare Malt 21 Year Old / 56.9%

The Rare Malt Selection is a historic selection of single malt whiskies from operational and lost distilleries that were released by Diageo between 1995 and 2005.

Brora closed in 1983 and over the years has contributed to 13 different Rare Malt releases. 

This bottle was distilled in 1977 and bottled in October 1998 as a 21 year old.

Bottle number 2070.

Bowmore 1985 Feis Ile 2012

Released at Feis Ile 2012, this 1985 vintage Bowmore was restricted to only 200 bottles and of that 30 were given to staff.

This very rare 1985 vintage was bottled at cask strength of 52.3%.

Brora 1977 Rare Malt 21 Year Old / 56.9%

The Rare Malt Selection is a historic selection of single malt whiskies from operational and lost distilleries that were released by Diageo between 1995 and 2005.

Brora closed in 1983 and over the years has contributed to 13 different Rare Malt releases. 

This bottle was distilled in 1977 and bottled in October 1998 as a 21 year old.

Bottle number 3937.

Please note minor creasing on box

Brora 25 Year Old 2008 Release

The 8th and youngest release of Brora from Diageo, released in 2008.

Bottle number 1534 of 3,000.

Please note general condition of tube.

Port Ellen 1978 Rare Malt 22 Year Old / 60.50%

The Rare Malt Selection is an historic selection of single malt whiskies from operational and lost distilleries that was released by Diageo between 1995 and 2005.

One of the two Rare Malt releases by Diageo, this particular 22 year old was distilled in 1978 and bottled in October 2000.

Bottle number 7770.

Please note condition of this lot.